Starting Cultivation During a Trip

The next morning, Zhang Fan got up early and rushed to the Jiangnan Province Daoist Alliance.

Even though Bai Buran was detained, Night is not bright couldn’t be shut down—the company still had to keep running.

With Zhang Fan’s current skills and connections, maybe breaking Bai Buran out wasn’t in the cards yet, but handling this minor matter should be doable.

”I’ve pretty much handled the paperwork for you. Night is not bright can keep operating.”

Sui Chunsheng was standing at the entrance of Jiangnan Province Daoist Alliance, like he’d been waiting forever. When he saw Zhang Fan arriving, he walked over holding an envelope of documents in his hand.

”You’ve been waiting long, huh? No idea what happened back there—a bunch of people blocked the whole road.”

Zhang Fan had texted Sui Chunsheng before leaving and should’ve already arrived, but halfway there he was blocked by traffic.

”Some car company went belly up over there. The employees are fighting for their rights—riot started after midnight,” Sui Chunsheng glanced over and explained.

”Car company went bankrupt?”

”Girl was still live-streaming, trying to sell cars. Someone tells her the company’s gone under and the boss skipped town—she just couldn’t hold it together on camera…” Sui Chunsheng said in a hushed tone.

He’d happened to catch that stream—BGM blasting ”Good Days,” she’s selling ”good cars,” and the boss? Pure scumbag.

No bonuses, no wages, no social insurance—the girl broke down and cried right then and there.

”Just says ’bankrupt’ and that’s it, huh.” Zhang Fan couldn’t help but comment. Judging by the scene just now, there were at least a hundred people.

”Heard that company’s CEO used to do shared bikes, now he’s doing new energy vehicles, just loves picking battles with the car biz,” Sui Chunsheng gossiped.

Employees still live-streaming, company bankrupt, boss disappears, no one’s paid, no one’s insured—when something goes wrong, who gets the blame?

What the hell is this!

”Nowadays, it’s money that’s hard to earn, and shit that’s hard to swallow,” Zhang Fan snorted, following Sui Chunsheng into the Jiangnan Province Daoist Alliance compound.

”Old Sui, so what’s the verdict for our boss’s case now?” Zhang Fan asked with concern.

Logically, even if Bai Buran had some murky connection to Mr. Nian, since the latter broke out of the tribulation and escaped, it shouldn’t really implicate Bai Buran.

You have to remember, Mr. Nian ended up trapped on Deserted Mountain for over ten years because he lost to Chu Chaoran’s will.

If they’re really going to investigate and hold people accountable…

”Then you guys should go arrest Transcendent Zhenren at Zhenwu Mountain…” Zhang Fan couldn’t help blurting out the fair thing.

Sui Chunsheng’s foot slipped; he nearly faceplanted.

He steadied himself, turned around, and gave Zhang Fan a look almost bordering on the supernatural.

”Can you please stop talking nonsense?”

”If you follow your own reasoning, Transcendent Zhenren may not be the main culprit, but still needs to…”

”Ancestor… I’m begging you…”

Before Zhang Fan could finish, Sui Chunsheng pinned him down.

”That’s Pure Yang! If you spout off in here, there will be consequences over there.”

Sui Chunsheng looked up at the sky, then glanced around, deeply uneasy.

”Chill, alright? Nothing’s been finalized yet, they’re just clarifying things,” Sui Chunsheng tried to reassure him.

”Boss Bai is just cooperating with the investigation, it doesn’t count as an arrest.”

”She might be out in a few days.”

”A few days… Your wording is so vague. What, you want Night is not bright to roll out a protest banner like those striking workers and camp out in front of Jiangnan Province Daoist Alliance?” Zhang Fan shot back offhand.

”Bro, can I call you bro? Whatever you do, please don’t do that. You’d be dragging the president’s dignity through the mud!” Sui Chunsheng pleaded, looking sheepish.

”Anyway, I promise you, I’ll stay on top of Boss Bai’s situation. If anything happens, you’ll hear it first.”

”Alright then, guess I’ll leave it to you, Old Sui,” Zhang Fan said, putting on a reluctant act.

”Daoist Chunsheng… Daoist Chunsheng…”

Just then, a wealthy-looking woman strode over. Staring at Sui Chunsheng, she clung to his arm.

”Can’t you just do one divination for me?” the woman begged, tugging his sleeve, almost in tears.

”Ms. Lin, I’ve told you—I really can’t divine that sort of thing…”

”Sorry, I’ve got work. Please excuse me!”

Sui Chunsheng grabbed Zhang Fan and beat a hasty retreat, like he was running for his life.

”What was that about?” Zhang Fan couldn’t help but ask.

”No idea where she popped up from—pulled strings to get me to divine whether her baby belongs to her husband or not,” Sui Chunsheng grumbled, face dark.

”Damn, you’ve cultivated so hard you can even check paternity—”

Halfway through, Zhang Fan paused, his expression turning weird: ”Check for what?”

”This era, man, End of Dharma has come, demons are running wild.”

Sui Chunsheng heaved a long sigh and led Zhang Fan into the office.

”Brother Fan’s here!”

Zhan Xinyue greeted them warmly, picking up a camera from her desk.

”Let me get some good photos of you in a bit.”

”Why? What for?” Zhang Fan’s heart skipped, déjà vu creeping in.

”You played a big part in capturing Yin Hu, so the league’s gotta reward you,” Sui Chunsheng said with a grin, eyes glimmering with envy.

”Reward me? Wait—it’s not…”

Zhang Fan’s face changed slightly, but before he could finish, Zhan Xinyue had already pulled a brand new banner from behind her—the red cloth with gold letters just screaming seven words:

Advanced Worker of Jiangnan Province Daoist Sect!

”Knew it!” Zhang Fan sniffed, left unsure what face to pull at all this.

Jiangnan Province Daoist Alliance never does the same award twice. He already had two of these at home.

Last time, for helping the Jiangnan Province Daoist Alliance defend the Zhang Family’s Old Mansion from Xu Dog Han Diyan, he’d gotten the ”Outstanding Worker of Jade Capital City Daoist Sect” honor.

Then, after the Match-3 Puzzle Funeral Home incident, he was awarded for individual excellence.